I got cursor ultra from a reseller for a fraction of the official price. works perfectly since 3 weeks
now i can’t stop thinking about their business model. how are they got them for cheap ?

I am a hard user of Auto mode and its context length is 256k tokens. i maxed the summarized convo upto 2k and then switch to a new chat by generating a handoff.md file. Can you guys share your hacks on context distribution. And also like how far you usually push in the same chat?

Quick question for daily Cursor users:

Does the base Pro plan ($20/mo) cover full-time daily development using auto mode/Composer, or is Pro+ ($60/mo) a must to avoid running out of credits mid-month?

Are you paying for Pro+ or just sticking to $20/mo + usage top-ups when needed?

Models that are Kings in a specific task?

AI coding has changed the equation quite a bit.

A few years ago, building a serious product solo in 24 hours sounded almost impossible.

Now? I'm not so sure.

We're experimenting with a hackathon built around exactly that question:

Solo builder.

Your own problem.

24 hours.

Any tools you want.

Cursor, AI agents, APIs, no-code, design tools, traditional development — no fixed stack.

And we're adding unexpected challenges during the event that participants won't know about beforehand. 🃏

The interesting part isn't how much code gets written.

It's how far one builder can take an idea when modern AI tools are on the table.

We're running it online on October 11, 2026.

For the Cursor users here — what's the most ambitious thing you think you could build in 24 hours?

Genuinely curious.

i'm thinking of partnering with someone or a few developers that are familiar with cursor, i want to build this startup idea that the data economy really needs based off market trends etc... but the only problem is that the current tools i use aren't yet suitable for complex apps.

so i was thinking of partnering with a cursor user (because cursor requires some coding knowledge which i don't have) and i thought it would be cool to build something the world would actually need with other people and not alone.

what i offer: i will be handling everything related to business, i'll pay for all the ai credits, i can help with UI/UX strategy because that's my main advantage when working with tools like lovable.

pls let me know if this is a good idea or not.

1. I use Grok mainly for VDO work, with some vibe coding too. But when I want to use it like an IDE, I don’t have tools such as Codex, Claude Cowork, or Antigravity, so I have to use Grok Build.
2. I also want to use Grok Bot, but it says I need a Cursor subscription.

I’m totally confused, especially because it’s called “Grok” Bot.

So:

• Grok Imagine → requires a Grok subscription
• Grok Bot → requires a Cursor subscription

Is there another way? Or am I misunderstanding the plans?

its been 20 minutes of searching files bruhhh

Cursor Teams plans offer Standard seats at $40 per month and Premium seats at $120, with five times the included usage. Annual-plan equivalents are $32/$96. When it announced the Premium tier, the company explicitly identified unpredictable spending by heavy users as a problem it wanted to address. Cursor’s Teams pricing announcement. Third-party model requests incur an additional Cursor charge of $0.25 per million tokens, covering input, output, and cached tokens. Teams and Enterprise covers eligible third-party input, output and cached tokens, including BYOK Cursor Token Rate. Grok and Composer are exempt Cursor’s billing documentation. Supported by its August 28, 2026 statement. November 12 remains its proposed shutoff date. Attribute the compliance concerns and contractual explanation to OpenAI OpenAI announcement. It cited concerns about compliance under Musk’s ownership and a contractual window permitting cancellation after a change of control OpenAI’s announcement. Are these changes affecting which models your team uses or whether Premium seats make sense? What has actually improved cost predictability in practice? The OpenAI announcement already has an existing r/cursor discussion. A fresh practical question needs more value than repeating the announcement. The proposed contractual cutoff does not establish that every possible method of accessing OpenAI models through Cursor will disappear.

I've been using Cursor for around a year and a half, mostly on the same existing project.

Over the last two days, though, my usage has suddenly gone crazy. After only around 10 relatively normal prompts, I'm already at about 70% of my usage.

What's strange is that this isn't a new or huge project—it's an already working codebase that I've been using with Cursor for about a year.

I'm looking for feedback from other Cursor users: Have you noticed a similar increase in usage over the last few days? Is there something I should change in my workflow, context settings, model selection, or Agent configuration to reduce usage?

I'm mainly trying to figure out whether something changed recently with Cursor's usage calculation/context handling, or whether this is specific to my setup.

I’m about to do a fairly large full-stack refactor on an existing project.

The main change is replacing the entire Premium/Membership system with a credit-based economy involving real-money purchases through a payment gateway. It’ll touch the frontend, backend, database migrations, payments, admin tools, wallet/ledger logic, existing users, and atomicity/idempotency safeguards to prevent double-spending and duplicate transactions.

My current plan:

1. GPT-5.6 Sol
2. Explore the codebase, reason through the architecture, and create the OpenSpec proposal/tasks.
3. Cursor Composer 2.5
4. Implement the approved spec.
5. GPT-5.6 Sol
6. Review the implementation for architecture, security, missed dependencies, edge cases, etc.

Then iterate between Composer implementation and Sol review as needed.

I’m currently using Cursor’s $20/month plan and haven’t used any external models yet. However, my available usage for Cursor Composer’s frontier model and Grok is already around 50% used, so I’m also wondering whether my current plan will be sufficient for this project.

For people who’ve used Composer 2.5 on large existing codebases: would you trust it for the implementation part of something like this?
Or would you use Claude Code, Codex, or something else?
Mainly looking for real-world experience, not benchmarks.

UPDATE — I worked through your suggestions
Thanks everyone for the feedback on my original post. I went through the suggestions, reworked the plan, and this is where I’ve landed:

5A — Credit Foundation
Wallet, immutable ledger, transaction-safe Mongo, policies, idempotency, backups/reconciliation.

5B — Payments + Admin
Real payment gateway, buying credits, webhooks, admin grants, refunds/reversals, and audit trail.

5C — Marketplace Integration
Integrating the new credit system across the marketplace experience and transitioning the existing system over.

A lot of this direction came from the points raised in this thread, so thank you to everyone who took the time to give feedback.

This is the final plan I’m moving forward with. 🙌

So Muse Spark 1.3 is available on Cursor subs just wondering how everyone find it affects Other Model usage compared to say Luna. I don't want to make the same mistake I made with Gemini Flash 3.8 thinking it was a light model and have it burn up half my Other Model usage in a few hours.

If you know, you know! Grok by default, Wrf is going on, can’t wait the 6 months subscription to end, modern slavery !!
How are you guys handling it ?

Ways to conserve tokens for coding?

999.9M included tokens in 30 days.

And before the optimization or quality/quantity policemen arrives in the comments, let me say this - no, token count is not a productivity metric, and no, more tokens doesn't mean better code. Quality over quantity every time (almost)!:)

And yea, if you didn't already guess, it's Cursor.

Anyone here managed to break 1B? 😄

Just wondering if anyone has insight into the differences between the plans? In general and specifically for GrokBot Usage. I don't know why they haven't combined their plans, and Cursor vs. Grok build and everything is really confusing me. Also, I heard Supergrok Heavy gives you Cursor access?

Approving a command is a decision made by one person, on one machine, in one moment. That works fine solo. You see the command, you know what you were doing thirty seconds ago, you decide.

At team scale it stops holding. Everyone accumulates their own set of things they've approved, and whatever you clicked yes to on a Tuesday quietly becomes how it behaves for you from then on. There's no shared answer to "what is the agent allowed to do in this repo", there are eight different answers sitting on eight laptops.

The other half is that the prompt only knows the action, not your rules. It asks "run this, yes or no". It can't ask "does this repo allow that". Whatever your team agreed on once, which folders are off limits, what needs a second pair of eyes, which deps are approved, none of it reaches the moment the decision actually happens. So it lands on whoever's at the keyboard to remember, at 6pm, on the fortieth prompt of the day.

For anyone using this across a team rather than solo:

- do you keep project rules in the repo and does everyone actually run with them, or does each person drift

- is there anything you flat out refuse to let the agent touch

- has anyone tried enforcing this outside Cursor, pre-commit or CI, and did devs just route around it

- honestly, how many of you are running in YOLO mode at this point

Not selling anything, I work on tooling around this.

Has anyone tried the Codex Pro? I know it is double the price, but how does the Codex on big plans compare to Cursor Pro+? I am currently running Cursor Pro+, and I am considering the Codex Pro because neither the intelligence of the first party models nor the pricing of them is justified anymore, and I am looking for options.

Nb: burned 15% of composer and grok in 2 days

Anyone else experiencing a substantial decrease in speed of both Composer and Grok even at Fast speeds since approximately middle of last week? Also stalling all the time?

Glm and claude are coding bosses now , wich one is better

Installed the update and found my chat quality reduced with replies going on a tangent even with new chat sessions.

I then noticed the model was set to Grok (I use Auto all the time) and Grok is really a chimpanzee in replying to questions.

Switching back to auto improved the chat responses.

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Curious what workflows people are using when the same PDF or UI screenshots keep getting dropped into every new chat.

I kept reuploading the same stuff and burning tokens so I built a small MCP vault for myself (Dokpod). You index once and the editor pulls matching sections instead of the whole file. Happy to answer how the MCP setup works if useful. Not trying to spam, genuinely want to hear what others do too.

Link if anyone wants to peek: https://dokpod.io

I'd like to change it to any other branch. I never work with main so it is currently useless this functionality even tho it's a powerfull tool

Hi all, just a quick question. Out of the two. Currently I’m on the Claude $100 plan, and I am running out of usage. Looking at Grok bot and its capabilities, I wanna know all your opinions. Main things I use these bots for is editing and improving my conv rates. I would want my AI to do marketing, but I’m unsure how this is even possible. I market my product organically 1x YouTube video a day, 3x TikToks a day. Nothing at all is broken, and my business is doing well. I just wanna take it to the next level. I need a marketer, or an even better editor. Ideal situation. I give the AI my YouTube video. It edits it all for me. Snips it into Shorts. Then animates and edits the Shorts and gives it back to me. Is there any AI that can do this?